Instant Games and PlayCanvas

You may have seen the news about Facebook launching Instant Games in Messenger. If not here's the launch video

Instant Games is a totally new mobile gaming platform and it's entirely built on HTML5 games. This is tremendous news for the PlayCanvas game development community.

Games that are built using PlayCanvas will work with no modification as an Instant Game. Those games are ready to be played in the Facebook News Feed and in Messenger.

Developing Instant Games

Instant Games are playable today in the News Feed and in Messenger. However, the development platform is currently in closed beta. If you've started developing a game that would be suitable as an Instant Game visit Facebook to sign up for the closed beta.

PlayCanvas Instant Games

PlayCanvas is already being used to build Instant Games. The launch title Shuffle Cats Mini by King was built using PlayCanvas. Look out for more titles built using PlayCanvas in the future.

A New Gaming Platform

We're tremendously excited to see Facebook launching the Instant Games platform and it is a perfect platform for PlayCanvas games. HTML games that are fast and lightweight, mobile and shareable. We hope you share our excitement and if you want to get started building your Instant Game, sign up to PlayCanvas for free today.